QEMU 1.0 released

Posted Dec 4, 2011 4:40 UTC (Sun) by MegabytePhreak (guest, #60945)
In reply to: QEMU 1.0 released by tzafrir
Parent article: QEMU 1.0 released

Interesting. I'm guessing the complicated part about a non-chroot approach is mostly to do with shared library paths? Since this has to be handled anyway for i386-on-x64 under the new apt/deb multiarch support, is there any chance that eventually it could simply be a matter of installing a gcc:armel package?

QEMU 1.0 released

Posted Dec 4, 2011 11:49 UTC (Sun) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link] (1 responses)

That is the general idea of Debian multiarch, and it already works, though not in the default configuration.

All you need to do is install a multi-arch enabled dpkg (default on Ubuntu 11.10, on Debian you still need to build from source), add the line "foreign-architecture armel" to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch, and install libgcc1:armel, libc6:armel, libstdc++6:armel, as well as any other shared libraries used by the application(s) you want to run (as well as qemu-user-static for your host architecture ofcourse).

QEMU 1.0 released

Posted Dec 5, 2011 11:56 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Debian has some very clever stuff for doing cross-platform development.

Combine that with Qemu's ability and Debian blows away 99% of the vendor provided platform SDKs that I have ran into.

Not that I am a expert on the subject.

QEMU 1.0 released

Posted Dec 4, 2011 22:07 UTC (Sun) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

Yes, that is in fact the plan with the new debian multiarch stuff, so far as I understand it. One of the reasons why proper multiarch is much nicer than the hacky "lib64" directory.